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For marketing year (MY) 2018/2019, Post revised total paddy production down compared to the USDA official number, from 44.68 million metric tons (MMT) to 44.43 MMT, or from 27.92 MMT to 27.77....

Last year, the European Union-28 (EU-28) was once again the largest export market for U.S. tree nuts.

Post estimates marketing year (MY) 2019/20 cotton production at 29.3 million 480 lb. bales (37.6 million 170-kilogram bales/6.3 MMT) with a planting area of 13 million hectares....

Tunisia’s biosafety framework was drafted in 2014 and is being reviewed by its government with the expectation that it will be enacted by mid-2020.

Rice export prices declined around 2 percent as supplies of new-crop white rice are entering the market.

China’s sugar production levels are forecast at 10.89 million metric tons (MMT) in MY19/20 (Oct-Sep).

On September 19, 2019, Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) announced genome edited foods that do not contain foreign DNA are not subject to the Food Labeling Standard.

Vietnam, Thailand, and Burma (Myanmar) are part of the fastest developing region in the world and account for roughly 221 million of Southeast Asia’s population.

Spain continues to host record-breaking numbers of visiting tourists.

Turkey’s sugar beet production is forecast at 20.5 MMT in MY 2019/20 and is expected to result in 2.7 MMT sugar.

On October 4, Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries announced that it would decrease planned imports of non-fat dry milk (NFDM) by 6,000 metric tons....

Turkey has removed most of the technical barriers on importation of genetic materials for animal breeding.